Combination-lock packing-box and savings-bank



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J. B. MORRIS. COMBINATION LOOK PACKING BOX AND SAVINGS BANK. No.472,136. Patented-Apr. 5, 1892.

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J. B. MORRIS. I GDMBINATION LOCK PACKING BOX AND SAVINGS BANK. No.472,136. Pa'tented Apr. 5, 1892.

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JOHN BERNARD MORRIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINATION-LOCK PACKING-BOX AND SAVINGS-BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 472,136, dated April 5,1892.

Application filed June 10, 1891. $erial No. 395,751. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN BERNARD MORRIS, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certainImprovements in a Combination-Lock Packing-Box and Savings-Bank, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention consists of a packing-box for candies, stationery, or othersimilar goods which can afterward be used as a toy moneybank.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing thebox closed.

Fig. 2 is a view showing the lid partially raised and a portion of thelocking-tongue exposed. Fig. 3 is a sectional view showing the tonguelocked to the box. Fig. 4 is a view showing the tongue unlocked. Fig. 5is an enlarged sectional view on the line 1 2, Fig. 3. Figs. 6, 7, and 8are detached perspective views of portions of the box; and Figs. 9 and10 are views of modifications.

A is the body of the box, made, preferably, of pasteboard, but may bemade of any other suitable material, depending upon the use to which thebox is put.

The box is so folded in the present instance as to form at one end a lidB. The opposite end of the box is also preferably provided with a lid,which can be used when the goods are packed in the box. This lid can besealed when the'box is in use as a toy money-bank, and the lid B is thenused as a lid of the bank. A suitable slit can be made in any portion ofthe bank to admit the money. Secured to the lid B is a tongue D,extending into a slot 1), as clearly shown in Fig. 5, formed by theouter surface a of the box and an inner lining a, Fig. 6, filling-piecesa Fig. 7, being inserted between the box and lining. Thesefilling-pieces a are recessed at c on each side of the slot 1) toreceive the locking-disks. Pivoted to the tongue D is a series of disksE, having their sides cut away, as shown in Fig. 4, so thatwhen thetongue is inserted in the slot b it can pass in between thefilling-pieces a and into the position required.

In the outer wall a of the box is a series of openings '6 opposite eachdisk when in position, as in Fig. 4, so that a child by using a pin orsimilarimplement can turn the disks through the slot until they assumethe position shown in Fig. 3, thus locking the tongue and lid to thebox. I have shown three disks in the present instance; but two may beused, or even one may be used, without departing from my invention.

In Fig. 2 I have shown a single tongue and the disks arranged in lineone under another.

It will be seen that after the box has been used for confectionery orother goods the lid can be sealed and an opening made for the insertionof money and the box used as money-bank.

I prefer to letter each of the disks, as shown, in any suitable manner.For instance, in Fig. 1 I have shown three disks, the letters thereonbeing so arranged that a certain word will first have to be spelled bymoving the disks-such, for instance, as the word cat the letters beingso arranged that when the c on the first disk is opposite its openingthe disk is free of the recesses c, the second disk is free when a isopposite its opening, I and when t is opposite the opening the thirddisk is free and the tongue can then be readily removed, the full wordbeing spelled.

The box may be made of metal or other material without departing from myinvention.

It will be understood that the undercut 8o slideway may be in the lid,as shown in Fig.

9, and the tongue secured to the body portion of the box. Two tonguesmay also be used, as shown, without departing frommy invention.

In Fig. 10 I have shown the disks pivoted to the box and the tongue Drecessed to receive the disks.

It will also be understood that figures or emblems may be used insteadof letters in 0 marking the disks.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination, in a box used asasavings-bank having a body portion and a lid, a tongue on either thebody or the lid, and a groove in the opposite portion adapted to receivethe tongue with locking-disks for looking the tongue in thegroove,substantially as and for the purpose described.

2. The combination, in a box used as a sav- 10o ings-bank having a bodyportion and a lid, a tongue on either the body or the lid, having one ormore disks swiveled thereon, and an undercut groove in the oppositeportion adapted to receive the tongue, substantially as and for thepurpose described.

3. In a money-box, the body portion, the lid.a tongue on said lid, oneor more disks on said tongue, said tongue and disk being adapted to aslot in the sideof the box,with an opening in the box opposite the disk,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

4. The combination of the box,a lid therefor, a tongue on said lidhaving one or more disks swiveled thereon and said disks being eccentricin form, the disks and tongue adapted to a slideway in the box, withopenings in the front portion of the box, whereby the disks may bemanipulated so that the lid can be opened, substantially as described.

5. The combination of the box, the lid, the tongue extending from saidlid, one or more eccentric disks on the tongue, said disks havingletters marked thereon,an opening in the box in front of the row ofletters of each disk, through which the disk can be turned,with a tersmarked thereon,with openings'in the box,

substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JOHN BERNARD MORRIS.

\Vitnesses:

\VILLIAM D. OONNER, HARRY SMITH.

